encroachment
AmericanOther Word Forms
- nonencroachment noun
Etymology
Origin of encroachment
1425–75; late Middle English encrochement < Anglo-French. See encroach, -ment
Example Sentences
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That’s why unions and other representatives of filmmaking humans are nervous about the encroachment of AI into their livelihoods.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
The only visible law enforcement presence is a police car rammed across the driveway, signaling the limits of encroachment, like an invisible wall in a video game.
From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026
While banks have embraced some aspects of crypto—helping people invest in bitcoin and using digital assets to make money transfers more efficient—they are drawing a line at encroachment on their core business: consumer deposits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Is the show a metaphor about the encroachment of AI?
From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025
From the time the first Portuguese explorer, Pedro Álvares Cabral, discovered Brazil in the year 1500, the Indian population was negatively impacted—from disease to enslavement to encroachment on their land and way of life.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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